PostgreSQL Job Trends in Berkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 64 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 +32
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 27 52 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.05% 3.27% 2.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.43% 14.86% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 35
10th Percentile £58,750 £56,750 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £71,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +31.03% +3.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £114,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £115,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.12% +16.67% -19.23%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 201 350 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.85% 22.04% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 132 162 320
10th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £94,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -34 24 £65,000 -31.58% 2
Wokingham - 2 £62,500 -
Slough - 1 £42,000 -
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (55.56%) Serverless
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon S3
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (25.93%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) Relational Database
2 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Looker
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (40.74%) Git
3 9 (33.33%) JUnit
4 7 (25.93%) JMeter
4 7 (25.93%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Retail
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (40.74%) Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Node.js Developer
5 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (18.52%) Java Engineer
6 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 1 (3.70%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) Node.js
2 15 (55.56%) React
2 15 (55.56%) Spring
2 15 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 14 (51.85%) REST
4 12 (44.44%) Web Services
5 10 (37.04%) Mustache
6 8 (29.63%) Apache Camel
6 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (29.63%) Hibernate
6 8 (29.63%) HTML
6 8 (29.63%) jQuery
7 7 (25.93%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (25.93%) Kafka
7 7 (25.93%) Redux
7 7 (25.93%) WireMock
8 6 (22.22%) JSON
9 5 (18.52%) XML
10 3 (11.11%) RESTful
11 2 (7.41%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Agile
2 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
3 16 (59.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (55.56%) Microservices
4 15 (55.56%) TDD
5 12 (44.44%) SDLC
6 11 (40.74%) Scrum
7 8 (29.63%) Analytics
7 8 (29.63%) B2B
8 7 (25.93%) BDD
8 7 (25.93%) Workflow
9 5 (18.52%) Biometrics
9 5 (18.52%) Process Management
10 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 4 (14.81%) DevOps
10 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
11 3 (11.11%) API Development
11 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 3 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) JavaScript
2 15 (55.56%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) Python
4 8 (29.63%) TypeScript
5 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 1 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (3.70%) R
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Kibana
3 2 (7.41%) Argo
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Istio
3 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Dynatrace
1 7 (25.93%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica